Mass Effect 3 Opts For Love Triangles Over New Love Interests

Executive producer for the upcoming Mass Effect 3 has said that there will be no new love interests, but that the returning romances will be played out in far more interesting ways.

“We don’t really have new characters that are part of the romance stuff in the way that we did in Mass Effect 2, where we introduced a lot of characters,” said Hudson. “So this is more about how you, if you’re a new players, how you start these romances with the existing characters. If you’ve had relationships with previous characters, then it’s your opportunity to resolve those.

“But we also have some interesting things happening, where you’ve got Ashley and Kaiden from the first game, you’ve got Liara, and there’s a sort of a love triangle there. And then we gave people a bunch of new characters,” added Hudson.

“People said ‘Well, I just want my Mass Effect 1 characters, and I’m not interested in any of these characters,’ But then a lot of people had romances with those characters, now the fun is bringing back some of those characters from Mass Effect 1 and putting them back in the mix, and looking at what you did in Mass Effect 2 and bringing some… interesting scenarios around those things,” he said, describing what has to be a pioneering cross-game plot mechanic that hopefully will become standard in video game trilogies of this nature.

You can almost picture that guy from that show Cheaters, running in on Shepard while he’s in bed with Tali, and Ashley furiously chasing behind shouting all sorts of racist expletives while kicking Shepard in the face.

I for one romanced Miranda in the second game and was proud to have done so, given the huge amount of regret I felt for romancing Ashley in the first game. Cat-fights ahoy in Mass Effect 3!